45 Bible Verses about image

God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

‘You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God.

“You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

“Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

“I am the Lord, that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another,
Nor My praise to graven images.

But the rest of it he makes into a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

They brought one. And He *said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” And they said to Him, “Caesar’s.”

Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.

and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him—

And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

The graven images of their gods you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, or you will be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

To whom then will you liken God?
Or what likeness will you compare with Him?

But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”

and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

Thus they exchanged their glory
For the image of an ox that eats grass.

‘You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

‘Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.

When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God;

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live.”

Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.

“Behold, all of them are false;
Their works are worthless,
Their molten images are wind and emptiness.

And He *said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”

Like a dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.

Therefore I declared them to you long ago,
Before they took place I proclaimed them to you,
So that you would not say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.’

He who is too impoverished for such an offering
Selects a tree that does not rot;
He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman
To prepare an idol that will not totter.

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who *had the wound of the sword and has come to life.

Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.